It's Complicated?

     Today marks my return to the magical class of AICE Media Studies and I could not be happier! Being able to discuss our film in person is so much easier than texting Gianna while she's in class and waiting 5-7 minutes for a response. Our productivity today consisted of a couple of aspects of our project. 

    Although Gianna and I did agree on no dialogue, I was having a hard time visualizing our storyline without any verbal context. I decided to put my frustrations behind me because even though I couldn't see it, I trust that Gianna and I will be able to accomplish it. We have decided to establish the relationship between our two leads by showing their "friendship" and then slowly developing it to show that there is something more between them. In order to help me see her brain, Gianna wrote down all the scenes we could use to represent this complicated love story.

Scenes Brainstorming

   

    We have established a story and a location. Next, we're going to decide on actresses and work on a storyboard. In terms of actresses, we started to create a list of possible friends and students we think would be good fits for these parts. For now, we plan on auditioning actresses based on scenes from Euphoria to test the chemistry between each other. 

     Oh, and we think we're going to title it Complicated. Seems appropriate...

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

    Gianna and I have continued to brainstorm and we have decided on some sturdy ideas. On Friday, we texted all throughout classes, bouncing thoughts off each other, and here is where we got:

• Coming of age
• Urban, maybe Miami Beach, location
• Lesbian love story

    Reading this vision, you probably think this is going to be a cheesy, cliche, teen film. That is exactly the opposite of what its going to be and simultaneously, the biggest problem we are going to have. Having to achieve a completely original and unique concept is going to be difficult but I think that the combination of Gianna and I's brains will be able to do it.

    So we still love the idea of Call Me By Your Name but for the relationship, I though that Rue and Jules' relationship from the show Euphoria is a good representation of what we are trying to recreate. The toxic young love of two people who are deeply in love but just terrible for each other. 

Rue and Jules from Euphoria

    That's pretty much all we've gotten so far but this week will definitely be more productive considering I will physically be in school ready to work!

We're Starting Our Portfolio Projects

    Okay, so the title of this blog may be misleading considering my entire class began working on their portfolio projects on Wednesday but unfortunately I did not. On Tuesday morning, I miserably tested positive for COVID-19 (bummer I know). I missed an entire week of school which included two class periods to work on this film opening with my beautiful partner, Gianna Schultz. In this blog, I am going to take you through my head and the ideas I created since my teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa, said "we're starting our portfolio projects."

    The thought of creating my own film opening felt almost like a dream... key word being almost. Over the past couple of months, I have had several ideas for short films so initially, I thought I could turn those ideas into a film opening. My optimism failed me when I realized that this would not be that simple. I also realized that doing this alone would be more difficult than perceived so I did what typically happens to more students when a partner project presents itself: make eye contact with your friend in the class and mentally agree to be partners. Gianna and I work really well together so as soon as we talked about our ideas we were pretty much on the same page. 

    We were still discussing stroylines but set the vibe for our piece. We decided on a more artistic piece with minimal to no dialogue. The inspiration for this idea was the Luca Guadagnino film "Call Me By Your Name." I loved how the film makes it's viewers feel this other level of emotion and thought without having many words spoken. 

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

    Other than the overall vision we had, we were stuck. But quite honestly, I didn't care too much. I am too excited to be able to create my very own (and Gianna's obviously) piece of film. And yes, we have made film related pieces but this one feels different. I am excited to see how it goes!